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J.P. Caruso/Daily Nebraskan Katelman grapples with bear ‘Ceasar’s challenge’ gives laughter and new experiences to wrestlers By Charles Lieurance Senior Editor Ceasar, the wrestling Russian bear, took on five contenders three times a day at Pat Egan’s 19th An nual Nebraska International Boat Sport-Travcl Show-, bcarhandling selected members of the sea of tes tosterone that flocked into Pershing Auditorium Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The bear, which belongs to Ohio’s World Animal Studios, outwrcstlcd as many as 40 flannel wearing hunters, fishermen and weekend adventurers in the course of the weekend. Would-be bear wrestlers donned their Ceasar’s Challenge T-shirts depicting a bear claw inflicting a gaping wound on a human chest and tried to pin the vegetarian bear in three minutes. None were success ful, and most succumbed lo laughter as the cheerful Ceasar licked them into submission. Steve Katclman, a senior adver tising major at the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln, wrestled the bear during the final wrestling match Sunday afternoon. “I’d never wrestled a bear before, but I was pretty sure I could kick it silly,” he said. “I figured I’d either win or get it so mad it would eat me.” Katelman said he was taken backstage before the show Sunday and told the do’s and don’t’s of bear wrestling. “They told me just before I went out to wrestle that it was mating season for bears,” Katclman said. “The guy said that the bear was going to want to stick his head as hard as he could into my crotch, then roll me over and do the dirty busi ness. “Just make sure Ceasar doesn’t get you on your back, they told me,” Katclman said. “I said it was nice of him to warn me.” Katelman said the only mistake ■» he made once on the mats was to pull the bear’s fur. For this, he was given a stern w arning by the referee and informed by the bear trainer that he must not hold his life in high regard. “I didn’t mean to pull its fur, but I couldn’t get a good hold on him,” Katelman said. The Ccasar’s challenge shirts, which tell Ceasar who he’s sup posed to wrestle and keeps him from rushing into the crowd and mauling children and pedestrians, are tear away. “The shirts let the bear know you’re fair game,” Katelman said. The bear was characteristically modest and refused to comment on his victory. Other members of the dangerous animal community were repre sented by Bob Jcnni’s reptile and spider show. Jcnni, the curator of Reptile Gardens in Oklahoma City, Okla., brought cobras, Gila mon sters, tarantulas and black widow spiders to the show. ‘Four Artists’ next at Sheldon “Four Artists” will be the next feature on Sheldon Film Theater’s Films on the Arts scries. The film, which will be shown Feb. 19-21, is a collective portrait of artists Robert' Ryman, Eva Hesse, Bruce Nauman and Susan Rothcn berg. It also documents the 1960s to the present, w hen artists faced the clean slate of minimalist theory and practice and added back to its reduc tive, industrial, abstract and aus terely rational program. Screeningsof“Four Artists,”a60 minutc film released in November, 19X7 by Michael Blackwood, arc at noon on the 19th, 11 a.m. on the 20th and 3 p.m. on the 21st. Admission is S2 for adults and SI for senior citi zens, children and members of the Friends of the Sheldon Film Theater. In the film, Ryman isolates painting’s essentials. His white paint on square surfaces, and his serial variations, are minimal in structure yet always reveal the hand of their maker. Eva Hesse’s organic abstrac tions — methodical, obsessively repetitive, monochrome sculptures —are loaded with psychological and emotional content. 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